In this podcast we discuss an ongoing dispute over an important wheat quality test, an appeal of a felony conviction for pumping surface water into a well, good times for spearmint growers, and the strategy behind AGCO's bin buyout.
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Some of the highlights from this week's edition of the Capital Press include efforts to sell boutique wines, a lawsuit over evidence of substantial potential to pollute, never-ending biotech crop court battles, a sudden turn in California's weather, and the shifting tug-of-war over the Western Oregon Plan Revision logging guidelines.
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Earlier this week, South Korean trade officials agreed to allow Oregon growers to export fresh blueberries to their country. The decision came days after Oregon state officials and growers returned from a two-week trip to promote trade with South Korea, Japan and China.
Two leaders of the Oregon Blueberry Commission, administrator Bryan Ostlund and chairman Eric Pond, came into the Capital Press studio to discuss with reporter Mitch Lies what the trade agreement means to growers.
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The lead story in this week's edition of the Capital Press examines the loss of one of the last large tracts of farmland in California's Orange County.
Reporter Mateusz Perkowski also provides some updates on developments in the courts, including a lawsuit against Cooperatives Working Together, a decision on a grain storage company's right to refuse biotech corn and a challenge to Oregon's right to farm law.
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Some of the top Capital Press stories this week:
Apple and pear growers have approved assessments that will raise $27 million for a research endowment at Washington State University.
Fruit basket retailer Harry and David has exited bankruptcy.
Former Agriprocessors owner Sholom Rubashkin's appeal of his conviction on multiple counts of fraud has been denied.
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Highlights from this week's edition of the Capital Press include coverage of Oregon's trade mission to Asia, rising personal income in Idaho, wrapping up the wheat harvest in Washington state and disputes in the Klamath Basin.
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